You're reading from The Music Producer's Ultimate Guide to FL Studio 21 From beginner to pro: compose, mix, and master music

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837631650

Length 462 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

FINAL CUT PRO

Concepts

Music Production

Author (1):

Joshua Au-Yeung

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section I: Getting Up and Running with FL Studio

2. Getting Started with FL Studio FREE CHAPTER

3. Exploring the Browser, Playlist, and Channel Rack

4. Composing with the Piano Roll

5. Routing to the Mixer and Applying Automation

6. Section II: Music Production Fundamentals

7. Sound Design and Audio Envelopes

8. Compression, Sidechaining, Limiting, and Equalization

9. Stereo Width (Panning, Reverb, Delay, Chorus, and Flangers) and Distortion

10. Recording Live Audio and Vocal Processing

11. Vocoders and Vocal Chops

12. Creating Your Own Instruments and Effects

13. Intermediate Mixing Topics and Sound Design Plugin Effects

14. Section III: Postproduction and Publishing Your Music

15. Mastering Fundamentals

16. Marketing, Content Creation, Getting Fans, and Going Viral

17. Publishing and Selling Music Online

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

19. Index

Exploring the Browser, Playlist, and Channel Rack

It would take a very long time to create a song if you had to learn how to play every single instrument in a band from scratch. Thankfully, FL Studio has some tools you can reuse in every song you make regardless what genre or style.

In the following pages, we will learn about the main features of the browser, channel rack, and playlist. These, along with the piano roll and mixer, are the core tools of FL Studio. These are the fundamental key components of using FL Studio and you will use them continually from now onward in your journey through FL Studio. We will be reusing these tools throughout the book. Learning about these tools is a continual learning process and you’ll find yourself discovering new features and techniques years into using FL Studio.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics: